a plant which is smaller than usual but bigger than a dwarf
adjective
2.
(of plants) smaller than standard variety but larger than a dwarf
Examples of 'semidwarf' in a sentence
semidwarf
During two years, higher grain yield were obtained in higher semidwarf plants of shorter cycle.
Gustavo Barnabé Biudes, Carlos Eduardo de Oliveira Carmago, Antonio Wilson PenteadoFerreira Filho, Joaquim Adelino Azevedo Filho 2007, 'Desempenho de genótipos de trigo introduzidos do México no Estado de São Paulo Behaviourof Mexican wheat genotypes in the State of São Paulo', Bragantiahttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0006-87052007000300006. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Most of the cultivars are short – stalked or semidwarf.
Ulich O. L., Karazhbey G. M., Tereshchenko Yu. F. 2017, 'AGRONOMIC QUALITIES OF NEW SOFT FALL – SEEDED WHEAT CULTIVARS OF DIFFERENT ECOLOGICALAND GEOGRAPHICAL ORIGIN IN TERMS OF KIROVOHRAD CULTIVAR STATION', Вісник Уманського національного університету садівництваhttp://www.visnyk-unaus.udau.edu.ua/assets/files/articles/Buleten2017/1/17.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
This transfer path was evaluated for elongating and ripening culm tissue of intact plants of two semidwarf grain sorghums.
Vietor Donald M, Tarpley Lee 2007, 'Compartmentation of sucrose during radial transfer in mature sorghum culm', BMC Plant Biologyhttp://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2229/7/33. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)